Schio railway station

Schio (Italian pronunciation: [skjo]) is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza (region of Veneto, northern Italy) situated north of Vicenza and east of the Lake Garda. It is surrounded by the Little Dolomites (Italian Prealps) and Mount Pasubio.

The Schio massacre was a mass prisoner killing carried out by former Italian partisans of the Garibaldi Brigade and officers of the Auxiliary Partisan Police in the city jail of Schio on the night of 6–7 July 1945. Of the 54 people who were killed, only 27 of them were fascist supporters or had collaborated with the Germans. The massacre was investigated by the Allies and two trials with convictions followed.

The Battle of La Motta, also known as the Battle of Schio, Battle of Vicenza or Battle of Creazzo, took place at Schio, in the Italian region of Veneto, Republic of Venice, on 7 October 1513, between the forces of the Republic of Venice and a combined force of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, and was a significant battle of the War of the League of Cambrai. A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish/Imperial army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos.

San Vito di Leguzzano is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is west of SP46 road. Sights include the parish church of Sts. Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia and the 16th century church of St. Valentino.

Torrebelvicino is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. SP46 goes through the town, which is included in the Val Leogra, a valley in the Vicentine Prealps.

Monte di Malo is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is west of the road SP46. The hamlet of Priabon in the commune gives its name to the Priabonian Age of the Eocene Epoch of geological time.

Monte Summano is a mountain of the Veneto, Italy. It has an elevation of 1,296 metres.

Monte Novegno is a mountain of the Veneto, Italy. It has an elevation of 1552 metres.

Malo is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. SP46 goes through it. Italian writer Luigi Meneghello was born in Malo in 1922 and remembered it in his first book Libera nos a Malo. Sights include the Villa Porto, a Renaissance patrician villa designed by Andrea Palladio.

Velo d'Astico is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is west of SP350 provincial road.

Marano Vicentino is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is south of Viale Europa.

The Vicentine Alps (Italian: Prealpi Vicentine; German: Vizentiner Alpen, Vicentiner Alpen or Vizentiner Voralpen) are a mountain range of the Eastern Alps in Trentino and the provinces of Verona and Vicenza. The mountains were named after the city of Vicenza which lies at their eastern edge. The highest point in the range is the Cima Dodici (2,336 m s.l.m.) on the northern perimeter of the Vicentine Alps.